[IC] A Stolen Land

[DM Dougfan]

[ooc: physically avoiding an obstacle does not grant XP.  Some amount of agency into mitigating the obstacle itself must be accomplished before XP is to be awarded.  Otherwise, you could cast a fly spell, fly over a room full of creatures, and start churning out huge amounts of XP.  That can't work.]

[OoC: It depends upon the objective and the level of threat.  Just flying over something to gather experience wouldn't be enough.  But spending resources to find a way to avoid the encounter because you need to get to the cave they are guarding on the other side should be worth something.  In our case we expended resources and managed to scare off a group of wolves that were more powerful than us.  The wolves were also not evil and were only following their instincts.  So chasing them off rather than killing them is actually defeating them creatively.    ]

"Well, since most seem to want to continue to explore the forest shall we delve deeper or should we explore its perimeter first?"

[[Emphasis mine.  What you just stated, and what Nex and Eran did, typifies my generalized statement.]]

[[OOC Eran: The Narlmarches are a vast swath of forest that bisects the Stolen Lands.  Picture the State of Maine with White Mountain National Forest bifurcating running the distance between north and south.]]